This Week Has 7 Tweets

03/15/2013 05:26 EDT
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05/15/2013 05:12 EDT

Ron Nurwisah
Audience Development Manager, Social and Video for HuffPost Canada

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Canadians love twitter. A LOT. This week in 7 tweets is a weekly column that looks at the funniest, sharpest tweets written by Canadians and is a look back at the week's events through a 140-character lens.

1. Pope Watch

The last Papal enclave was in 2005, an innocent, halcyon time before Twitter and Instagram and all this hyper-connected social media nonsense. As we mentioned last week, Canadians paid particular attention to this enclave because Quebec's Cardinal Marc Ouelett was in the running for Vatican's Next Top Pope.

Sun Media's David Akin, who was in Italy for the conclave tweeted out this surprising fact about Papal conclaves.

Longest conclave in modern history? 1740. Lasted 181 days and 4 cardinals died during the conclave.

Sadly, it wasn't all good news for astronauts or former astronauts this week. Liberal MP Marc Garneau decided that he wasn't going to beat Justin Trudeau and dropped out of the Liberal Leadership race. It inspired this great tweet from @TrudeauGoogles.